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People have asked me, since the Saints are 0-3 at the point where last season they were 3-0,
"What's going on with the Saints?" My answer is one that I discovered in "Shakespeare in
Love" during our recent viewing of that great play within a play movie: "It's a mystery." And as
with any great mystery, you don't want to put it down until the very end. Have the Saints
knocked the ball off the cliff or will they come bouncing back out of the trees and land on the
green? It's a mystery. Stay tuned.

We gave our five tickets to the last preseason game against the Dolphins to a Louisiana kids
charity volunteer, Tom Verret. Four lucky kids got to see the Saints, still unbeaten in regular
season at that time, beat Miami in the Superdome. Will they win another game? It's a mystery.
For the first time in history, LSU opened its season against an SEC opponent on Thursday night,
the same night as the Saints' last preseason game, so I opted to stay home and watch both games
in High Definition in the Timberlane Screening Room. It was a busy night at the remotes for me
switching the sound back and forth between FM radio broadcast of LSU and TV sound for both
games on TV. Both teams won. Now they are about 50-50. LSU is 4-0 and Saints are 0-3. After whipping Tulane soundly 34-9 on Sept. 29, LSU is now 5-0. On a day which saw every Top Ten team challenged and five of them beated, LSU rose to the top undefeated.

Hopefully the Saints will wake up after their BYE week. Hope they take the word BYE seriously.
Especially those on the offensive line who have not been offensive, but accommodating to
opponents attackers and allowing them to sack, pillage, and plunder our backs for three games.
I'll gladly drive over to the Saints practice field to say BYE to dem guys! Drew Brees has been
like a toreador dodging charging bulls without a cape or a sword. The offensive line has been as
tight as the 17th Street Canal levee during Katrina! Soft, squishy, leaky, and a big pushover! No
one's drowned in the backfield, but several have been airlifted off the field so far, such as star
running back Deuce McAllistair. Is it too soon to call out the Louisiana National Guard to protect
our backfield guys? Let's see if we vocal fans can hold the offensive linemen's feet to the fire
while Deuce is cooling his heels.

A few years ago when my daughter, Maureen, asked me to attend college with her, I enrolled in
post-graduate course in Education at UNO. She and I met at PJ's Coffeeshop on Robert E. Lee
near campus so we would need only one car on campus. I learned to enjoy PJ's coffee, especially
their double lattes. Two shots of Expresso in steaming milk and froth. Sipping good for 15
minutes or more. Keep you awake for 3 hours of class from 7 to 10 pm. I was drinking PJ's on
my way to college back then. Nowadays, I listened to college courses in my Maxima on my daily
trip to and from our local PJ's, so you might say that I am going to college on my way to PJ's
now. One day on my way to PJ's, I was listening to Prof. Robert Sapolsky, neuroscientist, talk
about the "jumping genes" of Barbara McClintock, who predicted them fifty years ago and was
ridiculed until the 1980s when it was discovered that the genes did jump around the DNA of
plants and also humans. These "transposable genes" can move based on information coming
from the outside in the form of chemicals and thus we have a mechanism that shows the
plausibility of what Anastasia talks about "the seed as physician." The seed and the resulting
plant can access the chemical information from the human being who plants it, nurtures it, and
harvests it, all the while adapting its interior structure to help heal that human of whatever
illnesses might be present in that person. You can read about this in more detail in The Space of
Love review in this Digest.

I heard from our daughter Carla in Beaumont where she has a new beau. She called after she and
Patrick had spent the morning looking through all my upgraded Digests. She told me how much
they enjoyed doing so. First it gave Patrick a perspective of what we've been doing for the past 6
years in a meaningful and fun way. Said they loved the Bobby & Del photos, noticed the "I Have
Issues" purse photo which finally struck home as to its meaning, as well as the No Bug Us Photo.
We have added a new feature for the future Digests called "A Blast from the Past". This is one
photo near the end of the Digest of a family member from 20 or more years ago. Check out the
photo of me, Claude Trosclair, and Bob Housden from 1957 in Mimosa Park in this issue. By the
way, all but one or two Digests have been upgraded and the remainder will be done as soon this
Digest is published. Next month I'll begin on upgrading the Reviews.

Inspired by Anastasia's concept of the "seed as physician", I bought some radish seeds. Dug up a
barrow full of Bio-Dynamic mulch and made a seed bed with it on the east side of the center
garden. Put the radish seeds in my hands and added my saliva on them. Held the seeds warm in
my hands and prayed as the saliva entered the seeds, then I committed them to the warm arms of
Mother Earth to bring them into sprout and food. I love radishes and yet have never planted
them, up until now. This marks a new day on Earth for me. Meanwhile the bell peppers,
eggplant, and green beans are beginning to grow in the same garden. I expect to continue this on
a larger and better prepared scale come the Spring growing season.

This month Del's mom had another back operation, a kyphoplasty again, this time cementing L4
and L5 vertebrae, the last two Lumbars not previously cemented. The recovery has been problematic
with pains appearing in various places. Too soon to tell how long this will go on. So far the X-rays of the back after the operations shows everything is fine. She is now getting up and down
after about a week of needing help, so that's good news.

Fridays this month have been my day in the library prison. Chained to my seat, working my way
through old books, discarding those no one will ever read, boxing those good enough for my
club's new library, cleaning off the shelves, turning over any bent ones, and chasing dust
bunnies down the library hallway to catch them before they start multiplying! I promised Del
back in March I would do the entire library before her Timberlane Garden Club meeting here,
and by summer I had yet to start, so I allocated Friday mornings for the task while Del was
working on other cleaning projects. Got through 60% of the library before the meeting and will
pick up doing the rest next Friday. (ugh!)

Early one Friday morning I made some macaroni-tuna salad for us and for the pot luck at
Rummel High School tomorrow. After 15 years of listening to Archbishop Joseph Francis
Rummel's long-winded exhortations in his weekly letters to parishioners at Our Lady of Prompt
Succor in Westwego, I figured that it's about time I have a grandson going to his eponymous
school, so we joined the Grandparents Club and will go to the first meeting and then
Grandparents Day later in the school year. Just in time for his freshman year, Gabe has had a
growth spurt of several inches in height, and has begun sounding like his Uncle Rob over the
telephone. First reports are that he is teaching things to some of his religion teachers. Not
surprising for a kid who said he wanted to be Pope about 8 years ago.

Gabe's dad, Steve, showed me the large redfish they caught at Venice yesterday. Gave me two of
them to filet. I prefer cleaning redfish myself, because I can clean away anything but the white
flesh, ensure there's no bones, and slice some for grilling and chop some in chunk-sized pieces
for a courtboullion. Took me about two hours to clean the redfish and clean up the mess, but in
the end I had some filets to grill for a supper with butter beans one night this week, plus a pack of
filets to fish fry another night, and a package of chunks for redfish courtboullion later. Decided to
throw away the frozen courtboullion from last year, and made some fresh redfish courtboullion.
— also resolved to eat or give away the courtboullion instead of freezing it. Before it was all
gone, our friends, Brian and Judy, Rosie, Ann and Don, John and Carole, and Paul Oliver had all
enjoyed the dish. I complimented Chef Bobby Jeaux on a best ever. Not only the best redfish
courtboullion he ever made, but the best food I'd eaten anywhere, ever. Talk about good! The
recipe is there folks on the recipe page. My dad, Buster, cooked almost the same recipe since the
1950s before Bobby Jeaux took it over and added a few twists of his own.

Just so you know that I do other things than write all day: Out cutting grass this morning. 81 and
cloudy. In the middle of grass-cutting, I had to repair the grass catcher. The vertical holder had
bent back over time and I took the maul to it to bend it vertical again. That's why the grass bag
had been slipping out a bit during cutting. Also had to remount the cotter pin, plus I shimmed it
up so that it won't have the amount of play that it did before. Both things will make it operate
easier and with less trouble than before. I decided to trim the hedges on the West Portico. When I
was almost through, I cut through the extension cord and stopped to splice it together again. Part
of the price of avoiding a noisy combustion engine. That took me close to an hour to do it right.
Then I trimmed a little more hedge, but it had been raining and I stayed under cover. Will need
some final touches, but I cut the Indian hawthorn hedge back as much as it was possible without
a chainsaw or pruning tool.

I was exhausted and took a 2-hour nap after the outdoors work. For supper I had an Audrey
avocado. Noticed how I couldn't bear the thought of eating a plain avocado as I have taken to
doing recently. Needed the vinegar and the mayonnaise for my depleted bodily resources.
Realized it immediately by how I felt instantly better with the first bite from the vinegar. Another
sign of how our body communicates to us what kind of food it needs if we do not stuff ourselves
every meal.

This month we treated the gardens of Timberlane with our Barrel Compost compound. A handful
of the special preparation, stirred into rainwater for twenty minutes, and then sprinkled from a long-handled brush over the plants after dark. One treatment a year seems to work very well on the
plants. I emailed Ferdinand in British Columbia to make sure he was still around and selling the
stuff. Apparently his answer was yes, because he told me in reply he had put some in the mail for
me. His price was still $25 including postage and I'll have another five years supply. We use no
artificial fertilizers in our gardens at Timberlane, but we apply this compound to the plants and to
the large mulch beds from which we obtain nice, rich organic soil. Plus whenever Bobby Jeaux is
cooking in his Kitchen, he keeps all the organic portions of the food in a grocery plastic bag for
me to spade into a needy spot in the gardens.

In preparation for the Garden Club meeting, I took Steiner, our beloved Schnauzer to be
groomed. The owner, Jim was not there, and the groomer told me, "That's okay. He doesn't do
the work." Well, she did a number on Steiner! Skinned him of all his leggings! ! Jim would never
do that without my approval. He would ask if it was needed. Scalping was not needed, but Jim
was sure needed! The cypress leaves have not begun to fall yet and Steiner was definitely not
matted. His leggings were just growing back from last years close cut after cypress season. To
make it worse, the groomer said that I told her to do a short cut. That was a blatantly obvious lie
because I told her nothing, just thinking about the hubris of what she said about Jim. Well,
Steiner is ready for an early falling of the cypress leaves. They have tiny hooks on the leaves and
usually stick in his leggings and soft white fur on his chest, all of which are gone.

On the day of the garden club meeting, three ladies showed up about 9:45 with food and drinks.
Del had everything set up in the east and south portico gardens. Allen Cowen of the LSU
Agricultural Center came to speak about ornamentals, new ones. My improvised screen using the
flipchart stand worked great over the fireplace. He told us about new ornamentals and flowers.
He covered Knockout roses and Cajun Hibiscus, sweet potato vines and wave petunias: tidal
wave are the newest and biggest; shockwave the smallest, the teeniest 'tunias.

Del asked me to read the theme poem I wrote for the Yearbook to the garden club, and later said
that I did great. Rosie said it was the best meeting ever. The food was good, and Del had
arranged a beautiful setup of tables under the live oak and South Portico. We presented Norma
Lulich with a Birthday Cake on her birthday and sang to her. I sliced the cake for everyone and
ate a slice myself. Several people pleaded with Elaine the President to invite me to talk to the
Club about bio-dynamic gardening. I told her if she needed a fill-in at some point, give me a
couple of weeks notice and I'd do it for them.

One Sunday we went to a Military Officers luncheon in Metairie with Jim and Gail Webb. Joining us were Mike and Wendy Jamison. Del and I met there an old friend from our Unlimited Singles days in the 1970s in Metairie, Bob Hildebrandt. After the luncheon the Mathernes, Webbs, and Jamisons motored to our club for the New Member Reception which usually marks the beginning of a new year of activities. One of Jim's fellow JROTC commanders was inducted as a new member. Del and I enjoyed seeing all the club members again after a long summer.

Near the end of the month, my mother's sister, Azelda, died in Thibodaux, Louisiana. I quickly
updated my In Memoriam for Aunt Zelda, my Godmother, whom I called, as is the Cajun
custom, my "Nanan." She died at 87 years of age. I found a 2002 photo of her that I'd taken to
use. You can see that her eyes are still shining. This is the only color photo I had of her in digital
form.

Today's kids have birthday parties every year, it seems, and they get multiple presents from all
kinds of people every birthday and Christmas. When I grew up, I never had a birthday party until
Del gave me one on my 60th birthday. I never received a birthday present from my parents even.
On my 16th birthday they happened to have a BBQ on my birthday and never even had a cake or
acknowledgment that it was my birth-day that day.

But there was one person who always remembered my birthday and Christmas and made sure
that I had a present from her, my beloved Aunt Zelda. She lived an hour or so away, so maybe I
didn't get my birthday present till a few days after my birthday, but one always showed up
eventually. May the Angels be with you, Nanan, and Christ Jesus hold you safe during this new
phase of your Life.

I drove to the funeral in Thibodaux at St. Joseph's, a beautiful cathedral-size church founded in
1920. Its interior ceiling, apse, and altar matches that of most churches I have seen of similar
sizes in Europe. Even had a bier for St. Valerie, the virgin and martyr, with a relic of her. Got to
talk to my Babin cousins there, Myra, Gaton, Leonard, Judy, Raleigh, Donna, and Pamela, plus
two of my mother's remaining sisters, the twins, Clara and Clarice. It was a rainy day as if the
clouds were also gathering to wept for the loss of our beloved mother, aunt, sister, and friend.
After standing up for over three hours, I drove two hours back to Timberlane and Del and I went
to the Saints Monday game in the Superdome. I stood up cheering the Saints on for three more
hours. But it was a fruitless endeavor. The football Saints went down like Saint Valerie did, a
virgin — no wins — and a martyr — slaughtered by the Greek giants, the Titans. As William
Bendix used to say on "The Life of Riley", "What a revoltin' development!" We finally crashed
at home about midnight after my exhausting day.

On Friday we had dinner at a long-time favorite Honduran restaurant nearby called "Divino Corazon" or Sacred Heart or simply the Pupuseria because they feature pupusas, a soft tortilla filled with cheese, etc. And our favorite drink, a kind of lemonadeade-like concoction called Chan. The owner Gloria was recovering from a knee operation and wasn't there, but her son Frank posed for a photo for us. They have just re-opened after being shut down by Katrina and completely remodeled.

This Saturday, the last one of September is Michaelmas, which is the 90th of my father, Hilman
"Buster" Matherne. We're meeting him for a late lunch at his favorite restaurant in Metairie. I
expect there will be many Louisiana oysters shucked for our table during that celebration. He joins his older sister
Hilda on the sunny side of ninety on this birthday. She is a couple of years older than he is. We
move the birthday party after the meal to Mimosa Park where the grandkids and great-grandkids
will be gathering for cake and ice cream. Happy Birthday, Pop!

That's it from out our way for another month. Till next month, God Willing and the river don't
rise! Make it a great October in your own Space of Love ! ! !

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The five most popular Reviews for August, 2007 are listed below. If you haven't read any of these before, why not find out why folks keep coming back to these five. Annie Dillard's book has topped the chart for almost six months.

Hits (Watch as soon as you can. A Don't Miss Hit is one you might otherwise ignore.). We lead off this month with a movie about a "Good Man" and a "Good Woman":

“Next” (2007) Nicholas Cage has a gift of knowing what the future holds for him up to two minutes in the future, thanks to the author Philip K. Dick. Can he help locate and defuse a nuclear bomb in time? With his girl friend’s life at stake he reluctantly helps. An edge of the seat thriller from beginning to abrupt end. It ends with a bang. “Bon Voyage” (2003) Delightful, fast-paced comedic drama with a half-dozen sub-plots woven around the capitulation of France under Marshall Petain to the German invaders and the spiriting from German hands some heavy water and shipping it to Britain to keep the atom bomb from the Germans. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! !“Evening” (2007) As Ann lays bleakly dying, we enter her reverie of memories which are bright and cheerful. We learn who Harris is, Buddy, Lila, and other key figures in Ann’s (Claire Danes) early life. A summer in the cottage by the sea. A wedding. A plunge into the sea. A new found love. A friend dies. These were not flashbacks but a view of Ann’s life as she was reliving it on her death bed. An amazing movie with three other marvelous actresses, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, and Vanessa Redgrave. “Black Book” (2006) Ellis was a singer before WWII and is trapped in Holland with her Jewish parents. Offered a way to escape with their money on barge through the marsh, they are mercilessly machine-gunned and only she escapes. To her horror she slowly discovers a plot to do this to all the rich jewish families trying to escape the Nazis. She has friends in the resistance, but whom can she trust? An up close and personal look at the ignominies of war for a short 2 and a half hours. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! ! “The Lives of Others” (2007) could be titled a “Sonata for a Good Man” in East Berlin in 1984, but that would be telling. Who is the good man? The playwright who writes Western ideas? His favorite director, now blacklisted? Or the State Police agent spying on him 24/7? This is an amazing movie showing the world of the GDR at the time Gorbachev was just coming into power. “It’s hard to imagine a man like you running an entire country” was said at the end to a not-good man. The 2 hours and 17 minutes will evaporate into the mist of time as this movie captivates and entertains you. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! ! ! ! !“A Good Woman” (2005) makes for a great movie. Actually two good women star: Scarlett Johansson and Helen Hunt. Helen plays the Scarlet Lady and Scarlett the ingenue newly married. If you agree that gossip is a dish best served hot, then watch this one right away! Wit and crumpets are never far away. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! ! ! ! ! Heat of the Sun: Disc2 1-3: (1991) Scotland Yard detective ends up in Kenya after he shot and killed an upper class pederast in the act of committing another crime after being released. He finds missing people, lion attacks, arson, corruption, and more teflon upper class felons to content with. But instead of following orders, he follows his nose and roots out the killer. “The Closer” could have been modeled after this mini-series.“Ladykillers” (1995) with Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers as part of a gang heisting an armored car with a plan to have the Mrs. Wilburforce, a tiny 87-year-old lady Alec is renting from, pick up the money in a trunk added to the receiving dock as if it had come in from out of town. While police are looking at all incoming luggage, she waltzes out with the trunk oblivious to its contents. Can she survive this episode at the hands of these deadly thugs? Ah, thereupon hangs a few thugs over a railroad track. . . “L’Auberge Espagnole” (2002) is a Spanish apartment filled with 6 students at the Eramus University, all from different countries: Russian, German, Spanish, English, American, Belgium, and France. Spend their year in Barcelona with them and, during the two hours of this movie, you will be most entertained. They are learning spanish, but speak various combinations of their other languages one on one with each other, but their one common language, English, comes out briefly for planning meetings of the whole crew. Exceptional cinematography, especially during their drinking and dancing celebration in a local club. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! ! ! ! “Danny Deckchair” (2003) made it big in a small town and that’s no small thing. He dropped in on Glenda three times: first time, she accepted him, second, she rejected him, and third, met him with open arms. Take a wild ride in a folding chair with Danny. You’ll love every minute. A DON’T MISS HIT ! ! !“The Valet” (2006) goes from parking cars to sleeping with a supermodel at the whim of her billionaire lover who wishes to keep her, his wife, and his business. So he put her in the valet’s pumpkin shell apartment in order to keep her very well. But things of mice and men gang aft agley and thereupon hangs the tale of a mouse.
“Emma” (1996) with Gwenyth Paltrow, Ewan MacGregor etal in a delicate rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel.

Misses (Avoid At All Costs): We attempted to watch these this month, but didn't make it all the way through on most of them. Awhile back when three AAAC horrors hit us in one night, I decided to add a sub-category to "Avoid at All Costs", namely, A DVD STOMPER. These are movies so bad, you don't want anyone else to get stuck watching them, so you want to stomp on the disks. That way, if everyone else who gets burnt by the movie does the same, soon no copies of the awful movie will be extant and the world will be better off.

“Equilibrium” (2002) equals soulless stagnation in a world so bleak and violent, we checked out before the second act. Worthless science fiction. A societal solution worse than the problem it sought to solve. Worthless science fiction.

Your call on these — your taste in movies may differ, but I liked them:

“Amores Perros” (2000) translates literally as “loves dogs” but idiomatically as “Love is a Bitch”. Both apply in this trilogy of love and hate. A supermodel moves in with a married man she clawed away from his wife and daughters. A young man falls in love with his older brother’s fighting dog and pregnant wife. A guerilla leaves jail to kill the man who married his ex-wife and replaced him as father to his daughter. Mix these together violently and you have a bloody, well, interesting movie.
“Mentor” (2006) Rutger Hauer plays the mentor to a younger English professor and fellow writer, but somehow they menàge to fall in love with the same woman and thereupon hangs a bit of tail. Intriguing weaving of flashbacks into real-time. “Heat of the Sun” (1999) “Sport of Kings” this episode completes the mini-series. They separated two episodes on disks 1 and 2, causing us to miss the end of Disk 2 thinking it completed on Disk 3. Enjoyable character playing the Scotland Yard detective in a Kenya that wasn’t ready to enforce justice against the Brits.
“I Am a Sex Addict” (2005) and an innovative film-maker who leads us through his film introducing the actors and the people they play as we go along. Graphic sex scenes almost portrayed, mostly talked about. Humor and innovation sustains interest.
“Romance” (1999) Slow movie about a French school teacher who wants a baby by her husband who won’t have sex with her, so she experiments with other men. Director’s Cut shows actresses’s over and over. A barely YC“Ripley’s Game” (2003) but nobody knows why. Malkovich plays Ripley and it’s an inscrutable game they play together. Why does the enigmatic art dealer and amoral assassin choose Jonathan, a frame-maker with leukemia, to become a paid hit man? Ripley is an art collector, an art dealer, and an artful murderer who prefers to spend time playing the harpsichord with his talented wife, but he has a game on the side which is worth sticking with to the end.
“Life Without Dick” (2001) and without a script. That’s the predicament Harry Connick, Jr. found himself in when his hitman assignment was to kill Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband Dick, whom she had just shot through his guitar. (One dead in the cellar, Chris Rose!) Dick was the private dick on TV, “Just dial IMA-DICK”. Well, fun happens even when the script sucks and Craig Ferguson shows up as Harry’s boss and spices up the show, otherwise filled with inane jokes like, “We are Irish, not Mafia.” And Harry’s reluctance to sing or kill people, which can be fatal to one’s occupation as a hitman, but thanks to absence of a script, he manages to survive to give this turkey a Your Call rating.
“The Star Maker” (1995) is Joe, an itinerant film agent who wanders the countryside of Sicily giving auditions. Everyone he meets he looks at and says they could be a movie star. Then he charges for filming their audition. But what develops? Not the film he shoots. But a series of memorable vignettes of local people and one girl who falls in love with Joe. “Italian for Beginners” (2000) is a small class sponsored in a Scandinavian town. Six to eight lonely people meet to learn how to ask for a double bed in Italian and six of them go to Venice and learn to enjoy double beds together as three couples. Venice makes flow that which was stagnant back home. “The Highwaymen” (2004) Road rage at its zenith. Caviezel stalks the cyborg-man-cadillac who blatantly killed his wife as one of his serial murders of women. Will the man and machine ever beat the man-machine? Bloody, brutal, and baleful from beginning to end. Not a bedtime story for the kiddies. “The Very Thought of You” (1999) Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell in a three-way romp with an American gal three Brit friends meet and fall in various forms of love and lust with. Fiennes’ bit with the “psychiatrist” is a classic. “Blades of Glory” (2007) HD view of two guys ice skating in the Doubles Championship. The “Elf” meets “Napoleon Dynamite” on the ice. Which one will lead? Who cares? Some funny bits got lost in the ridiculous plot making it barely a Your Call.
“Ten Canoes” (2006) and ten paddlers looking for goose eggs in a swamp in Oz plus an aboriginal narrator who laughed when something funny happened on the screen. He closed by saying, “Our story is a good story — not like your story, but a good story all the same.”

Leeks-Eggplant-Mushroom Red Beans Étouffée

Background on Leeks-Eggplant-Mushroom Red Beans Étouffée:
An eggplant étouffée makes a great base for the Crawfish Eggplant Dressing and the Crab-Eggplant-Shrimp étouffée, so when I had an eggplant which needed to be used and was planning to make some quick red beans and rice, I combined the eggplants with some leeks and mushrooms with the red beans and came up with this recipe.

Cooking Instructions
Coat bottom of large fry pan with Olive Oil, HEAT on HIGH, place a tsp of chopped leeks in pot and when it begins to sizzle add the rest of the leeks, sauté until translucent, add bell pepers, garlic, and half of mushrooms.

Other options
Subsitute yellow onions for leeks. Double the mushrooms. For a special treat, chop the eggplant in chunks and do not mash down the chunks to add texture and savor to the final dish. If you do the chunks, the mixture will look like this in the pot cooking.

After the success of Vlamir's first book, people came to find Anastasia and none were more persistent than Boris and his group of six who planned to kidnap her and her son and spirit them away from their Space of Love to a Nature Preserve outside of Moscow. Boris has even selected a mate for Anastasia to replace the unworthy Vladimir. Their guns and helicopter proved useless against Anastasia, however, and they left their base to return home haunted by what happened to them. They endured a Hell of their own making and watched Anastasia performing a "grand miracle" on a small girl.

Vladimir sought out Anastasia's foremother's dolmen, the one in which she sacrificed her life to help mothers everywhere learn the truth about breast-feeding. He fell from the side of a cliff and was unconscious for days while the foremother in her spirit helped him to stay alive. Recovering finally, Vladimir takes three roses to her dolmen in her memory — the first person since her death many generations ago to pay their respects for her sacrifice.

He returned to find Anastasia, and was warned away by local guides, but continued on his way, only to be beset by ferocious dogs from the city returned to the wilds. Anastasia got there in the nick of time to save him and to escort him to meet his son. This was a grand meeting for Vladimir and he was astounded by what he found when he reached the space of love, the small glade where his son was growing up.

Later Vladimir visited the special school in Gelendzhik, which is a prototype of a school run by the school children themselves. In addition to the joyful song of children’s voices singing, he saw children creating the two-story school building by themselves. But what about the academic side of things, you ask? Read for yourself, and decide if this kind of academic achievement could be possible in public school systems which create soulless slaves who only strive to escape their enslavement as soon as possible.

[page 131] At this school children take but a year to master the whole ten-year public-school maths syllabus, along with studying three foreign languages. They neither recruit nor produce child prodigies. They simply give kids a chance to discover what already lies within.

What can we learn from this book? Anastasia tells us that we should not put our lamp under a bushel basket. When its light is not visible anymore, much discussion will be generated, but little light will be shed upon the subject until we raise the basket. What is this basket which shields us from the light of wisdom? She names it, “the erudition of invented dogmas.” Academic gobbledy-gook, in other words.

[page 108] “It is the parents’ duty not to hide the creative Light under the erudition of invented dogmas. For ages upon the Earth debates have arisen as to which system might be the wisest. But think about it yourself, Vladimir. Debates arise where Truth is hid from sight. Fruitless debates can go on forevermore as to what might be found behind the closed door. But one has only to open the door and it will be clear to all, and there will be nothing to debate, since everyone will be able to see the Truth for himself.”

You are Man, each of you reading this text. You have latent within yourself all the power that Anastasia has, and she is willing to tell you how to use your power. The choice is in your power. Read the book or not.

So you think you know the Little Prince because you saw the movie with Gene Wilder and Robert Fosse? Unfortunately fairy tales do not convert to the big screen very well. Too much stuff going on visually to comprehend the truth behind the screen.

The Fox's Gift reveals this truth to us if we ponder it: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye." If you were looking for the truth on the screen, you probably missed it. Here's your chance to begin over, to make a fresh start.

Read the book.

Learn about the people around you and about yourself. Do you know business people, people who drink too much, people who wish to be treated as royalty? Antoine de Saint-Euxpéry is a lamp lighter, read his works directly allow him to turn on one light after another in your mind as you read this gentle story.

Read the book.

He will lead you to remember how to view the world of big people as you did as a child again. Remember when you thought adults were strange. . . . and you had a special friend that meant the world to you in a way no friend since has . . . remember when a special friend of yours died and left a hole too big for adult words to fill . . . the author remembers such a friend . . .

[page 14] For I do not want anyone to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures . . .

You are older now and concerned with grown-up things. You have solved all the riddles in the world, haven't you? What riddles? Oh, like where we go after we die? No one has the answer to that riddle, you say? The snake does:

[page 60] “Oh! I understand you very well,” said the little prince. “But why do you always speak in riddles?”
“I solve them all,” said the snake.
And they were both silent.

A movie is noisy and a book is silent. Read this book and you will find out things in silence that you cannot find out by asking other people or watching noisy movies. You will learn to hear the stars laugh . . .

In the short 260 pages of this book, we are given the story of creation of a paradise on Earth
for Man, we are taken on a trip with Anastasia and Vladimir to another planet, and finally we are
shown how you and I can make for ourselves a Paradise on Earth today, beginning where we are. After
reading this book, we can be passive readers no longer. Anastasia lays out a plan for each of us to
construct our own piece of Paradise on a hectare of land (2.5 acres) in which we may live healthy and
productive lives without depending upon some federal agency to provide us health care, medicines,
or any of the other obtrusive interventions which have progressively reduced both the quality of life
and independence of human beings across the globe.

If you have read the first three books of the Ringing Cedars Series, you know about Anastasia's
beloved dachniks, Russians who work in the city, but have a small plot of ground about the size of a
city lot in the USA on which they cultivate fruits and vegetables on the weekends. Over half of all
Russians get most of their fresh produce this way. You have also heard about the concept of the "Seed
as Physician", and if you have read my review of Book 3, The Space of Love, you have heard how the
discoveries of biochemists in the last two decades have revealed the mechanism of "transposable
genes" in plants which provides a pathway for the information from your own body to modify the
proteins made by plants you grow so that your body will receive nutrients which are vital for your
health. This happens on a one-on-one basis. Only the foods you individually plant, harvest, and eat
provide such fine-tuning of their proteins directly for your individual body. The seed can thus become
your personal diagnostician and pharmacist to heal what ails you before any outwardly visible disease
appears, and, in fact, forestall indefinitely the onset of any disease. Clearly, not many drug companies
or physician networks would acknowledge such a mechanism, up until now.

In this book, Anastasia, under prodding by Vladimir, goes further and shares her dream for a
world in which the concept of dachniks evolves into people living on the hectare-size plots of ground
with trees, berry hedges for fences, a pond, a tree plot, a garden and a house. Photos of drawings of
these plots appear on color plates between pages 186 and 187. Anastasia is openly and gladly sharing
with us the opportunity to build our own Space of Love on such a plot of ground which will live on
for generations as a place of veneration and living love for our descendants.

If you think this is unrealistic, then I agree, to you it seems unrealistic, but what Anastasia
proposes is realizable and people around the world are already beginning to build these garden
paradises in which to live and raise their children and themselves. If you are convinced it is unrealistic,
then it would be best to stop reading here. If you continue reading, either of two things will happen:
1) you will come to grasp that her plan is realizable or 2) you will justify your original position by
trying to undermine those who believe it is realizable. For your on peace of mind, simply stop reading
now.

"What kind of dreams do God's children have today?" she asks Vladimir. What do you use
your creative dreams for? This is the question she poses for all of us. Vladimir, representing everyman
in the book, answers, "Money for food, car, clothes, furniture, etc." She spoofs him, saying that we are
already given these things by God. Vladimir wants to know where these are hidden and she tells him
and us a paraphrase of what the Fox told the Little Prince, "It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Our feelings, what we feel with our heart, are invisible
to the eye, and only the most heartless of Bacon's adherents would deny that they possess such
feelings. We are given a charge in this next passage to allow our feelings to lead us into the new
millennium in which our culture of frailty, need, and want will fade from view and a new vision of
robustness, abundance, and joy will begin to replace it.

My dad always had a large garden with a lot of produce; usually he had green beans, bell
peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, okra, and tomatoes. He shared them with all six of us children and I
never tasted a better tomato or cucumber than that which came from his garden. It wasn't until reading
the Ringing Cedar Series that I came to understand about the significance of the difference in flavor.
Those plants were grown in soil that I had worked as a child and an adult. Those plants had modified
themselves to my own body's requirements using their transposable genes to create proteins and other
nutrients my body needed. My body recognized the presence of these nutrients and signaled me of their
presence by the enhanced flavor presented to me from my palate.

This concept of enhanced flavor due to the presence of the body's needs may seem far-fetched
to you, dear Reader, so let me give you a down-to-earth example from my own experience. Growing
up in South Louisiana summers were hot and sweaty with temperatures in the 80s and 90s into
September and humidity less than 60 percent was considered dry. In the 1940s and 50s as a growing
boy, a special treat was an ice cold watermelon on a steamy summer afternoon. Along with the
watermelon, my mother, as was the custom in our area, always placed a salt shaker on the table to
sprinkle on the watermelon, "to make it taste better." I remember trying the watermelon with and
without the salt and sure enough, the watermelon tasted better with the salt sprinkled on it. Even as
a child, I was an experimenter, and I wondered at times about how something salty could make
something sweet like watermelon taste better. I held that unanswered question for about six decades
until recently.

One day I was invited to have watermelon with an 87-year-old friend of ours, Rosie. She placed
a salt shaker on the table. Neither one of us used the salt, but it was there. Why? Why was the shaker
there, and why did we not use it? If salt in fact made watermelon taste better, as I had confirmed as a
child, why did we not use it some today? What was different? Then it hit me! Air conditioning! As a
child, neither Rosie nor I had air conditioning in our homes. We were outside playing, running around,
working, etc., and perspiring profusely. That perspiration contains salt and our bodies were depleted
of salt, so we sat down to eat watermelon, which contains little or no salt within it, our bodies needed
salt, and by sprinkling a bit of salt, we restored a healthy balance of salt to our bodies. That's simple
biochemistry stuff. But note our body let us know that we were doing the right thing by adding salt by
changing the flavor so that the watermelon actually tasted better when we added the salt! Our bodily
wisdom actually encouraged us to add salt by enhancing the taste. Nowadays with air conditioning we
do not sweat as much and while someone might, out of habit, place a salt shaker on the table with the
slices of watermelon, no one uses it anymore.

It is a short step from the salt-watermelon to the home-grown cucumbers tasting better because
they contain nutrients with designer genes created by the plants specifically for our bodies. Vladimir
discovers the special taste of the cucumbers grown by Anastasia in her cedar glade, and notes it for us.

[page 85, 86] You see, this ordinary-looking cucumber was utterly different in
taste from any I had ever eaten before. This taiga cucumber had a pleasant
unique fragrance. You'reno doubt aware that cucumbers grown in hothouses
taste quite different from those raised in garden beds in the open air. The ones
growing in the open have a significantly superior taste and fragrance. But
Anastasia's cucumber surpassed all the open-air cucumbers I had tasted before,
and possibly by an even greater margin of difference.
I quickly picked up a tomato, tried it and polished it off on the spot. Its
taste, too, was extraordinarily delicious. Like the cucumber, it was far tastier than
any other tomato I had ever eaten. Neither of them required any salt, sour cream
or salad oil. They were delicious in and of themselves. Just like a raspberry, or an
apple or an orange. Nobody would ever think of either sweetening or salting an
apple or a pear.

Our bodily wisdom, by flavor enhancement of what it requires, helps us to select and favor
those things. Anastasia tells Vladimir she had prepared the feast in the taiga so that his body could
begin taking over the cure which she had been doing on two previous visits but would do no more. He
asks, "What might cure me?"

[page 88] "Your own body. Once you try a bit of everything, the body itself selects
what it needs. You will feel like eating more of what you have chosen. Your body
itself will determine what it needs."

Then he asks her why she will not take the pain away from now on. Her answer contains a deep
insight into the healing profession. She offers us the words, "Pain is a conversation between God and
Man." Translated into karmic terms, God represents the spiritual burden of karmic debt each one of
us carries, and the pain is our bodies way of balancing that karmic debt. No one else can remove that
karmic debt, only defer it for a time. But if we change our diet and other addictive habits, we can bring
some balance into our karmic debt and the pain will cease. By providing him with foods that could
help Vladimir, she offers him a chance to do exactly that. The signal of accomplishment will come if
and when his pain ceases.

[page 89] "I shall not take away your pain any longer. Pain is a conversation
between God and Man. But, I can now... since I am just offering you food - that
does not go against Nature, although it does go against them."
"Who's them?"
"The ones who thought up the regime that is so harmful to Man."

The regime is simply that followed by most people — buy what is made available at
supermarkets. Isn't that your regime, up until? Have you given any thought as make the regime you follow healthful from now on? Have you thought of a way to provide a new regime for you and your family in your own life?

Here is a solution for you to ponder: Sow and grow and eat food grown with your own hands. You already have the
ease of acquiring food, but pains which accompany your choices, and a large industry of drug
companies eager to sell you drugs designed to minimize your pains which your store-bought food cannot alleviate. The drugs do not take it away, do not cure your underlying deficiencies, but instead merely reduce your pain to a level of tolerance, and create in their wake a plethora of unwanted and unpleasant side-affects which are often as bad as the original pain. Do you really want to continue to provide your body as a dart board for medicine's latest miracle cures? Miracle cures? Does that mean it'll be a miracle if it helps more than it hurts? You have lived with pain,
up until now. Is there a practical solution for you today?

[page 90, Anastasia, Vladimir] "All systems under a technocratic way of living
invariably work only for themselves, Vladimir. Do you consider it 'convenient' to
get those lifeless frozen or tinned foods, or water that is half-dead? Was it your
body that determined the selection of foodstuffs available in grocery stores and
supermarkets?
"The technocratic world's system has taken upon itself the role of
supplying you with the necessities of life. You have agreed to this, you have
complete faith in it, to the point that you have even ceased to wonder whether you
have been supplied with all the necessities."
"But we're still alive — we aren't dying from using these stores!"
"Of course you are still alive. But the pain! Where do you think your pain
comes from? Think about where pain comes from with the majority of people.
Disease and pain are not natural for Man, they are the effect of choosing the
wrong and then take what you like with you. Three days is sufficient for these
little herbs — which you yourself will select — to overcome your pains."
I began trying a little of everything while Anastasia was still speaking.
Some of the clumps of herbs were tasteless, while others I felt like eating more of.
Before my departure Anastasia put the things I had taken a liking to into my
backpack. I ate them over a three-day period. And the pain completely
disappeared.

Vladimir asks for more details about creating sustainable land without artificial fertilizers and
exactly what crops to plant, etc. So she outlines the plan starting from the hedge fence of berry plants
and trees.

[page 189] "Let us say our lot is on a barren section of land, and is now enclosed
on all sides by a hedge. Let us divide it, reserving half or three-quarters of the lot
for a forest, and there plant a variety of trees. On the edge of the forest, where it
borders on the remaining part of the lot, we shall plant a hedge in such a way that
animals cannot pass through it and trample the crops growing in the garden plot.
"In the forest we shall set up a pen using densely planted saplings, which
in time will be home to a goat or two. And we shall also use saplings to construct
a shelter for egg-laying hens.
"In the garden plot we shall make a pond approximately 16 meters across.
We shall plant raspberry and currant bushes among the trees in the forest, and
wild strawberries around the edge. Later, after the trees in the forest have grown
a little, we can set up two or three empty log hives there for bees. And we shall use
trees to make a gazebo where you will have a cool place, safe from the heat, to talk
with your children or your friends. And we can make a summer sleeping area out
of living things, along with a creative workshop for you. And sleeping places for
the children, and a living room."
"Wow! It won't be a forest we end up with, but more of a palace!"

There is a tremendous lot of barren land in the USA where such hectare plots of land could be turned into such a Space of Love in perpetuity for a family using the general plan outline set down by Anastasia and modified for local flora and fauna.

In this book and the rest of the series, Vladimir is a hardened entrepreneur who is constantly lodging objections which are overcome and he ends up being wowed by Anastasia’s descriptions , such as how young people, who will be reading these stories in the coming years, will create out of their thoughts Spaces of Love containing homes which will be palaces in their own Kin’s Domain where they will conceive, give birth to, and raise their children in living love, a place where all the planes of being will be woven into one tapestry of love.

What are you waiting for to begin building your own Space of Love and participating in your true vocation as a co-creator in the Universe? The time is now, the place is where you are, and it all begins with the most powerful weapon in the Universe which you as a Man possesses, your thoughts. Think about that.

I hear often from my Good Readers that they have bought books after reading my book reviews.
Keep reading, folks! As I like to remind you, to obtain more information on what's in these
books, buy and read the books — for less information, read the reviews.

In this section I like to comment on events in the world, in my life, and in my readings which have come up during the month. These are things I might have shared with you in person, if we had had the opportunity to coverse during the month. If we did, then you may recognize my words. If I say some things here which upset you, rest assured that you may skip over these for the very reason that I would likely have not brought up the subject to spoil our time together in person.

1. Padre Filius Reads a Church Billboard in Gretna this Month:

Padre Filius, the cartoon character created by your intrepid editor and would-be cartoonist, will appear from time to time in this Section of the Digest to share us on some amusing or enlightening aspect of the world he observes during his peregrinations.

This month the good Padre reads a reminder that Love is not a thing to be received, rather something you do in the process of loving, therefore, rightly understood, Love is a Verb.

2.Comments from Readers:

EMAIL from Bob Housden in Missouri (See 1957 Photo of him at right):
I thought you might be interested in knowing that the B-25 you featured was not one of the bombers on
Doolittle's Raid; all sixteen of those B-25B's were crash landed or bailed out of over China . . . except for one
which landed in Russia and was confiscated. Pachito is a B-25J which was manufactured too late to see
combat in WWII. (Bobby: Thanks, Bob. Duly noted and corrected in Digest.)

EMAIL Question about Digest079, Comment 5:
> Bobby,
> Where did you find the info on the wage earner fighting the IRS?
> I've shared that info with some folks and they all asked:
> who/what/where/when. My son especially! He is taking wills and estates
> this semester and so is quite interested in anything IRS related.

Thanks for noticing the tax thing. Try Googling it. I purposely didn't
post the name because I've known people who went to jail already for using that tax evasion
strategy. I don't wish to encourage others to do the same thing. Forget the Constitution — it only protects those who
pretend to enforce it.

You may have noticed that I don't dance with the forces of coercion. I
pay my taxes even though they are illegal, unconstitutional and
unforgiveable. What's so good about taxation WITH representation? But
until the guys with guns stop coming after people who don't pay, rightly so or not,
I'll pay so I don't have to dance with the thugs.

EMAIL from Hawaii: Aloha Bobby,
I am so glad to be one of 3+ million readers of your website! Your technique is really fun!
I just found out about it and spend about 3-5 hours reading it. I also did some
exercises for food (snails, bugs) and it seems that they are not important
anymore. My face remains calm and confident! Sooo Fun! I love it!
You see, I am fascinated with human mind and with the possibilities to LivDelicious no matter what has happened in the childhood.
Lots of love and delight about your work!
Helena

EMAIL from Dave in California:
Do you happen to know if Doyle Henderson is still alive or not? What
jogged my memory to check your site was that a forest fire is burning
near Doyle's home in Fawnskin, Calif. in the mountains near San
Bernardino, Calif. Doyle wasn't in the best of health, as I
recall.

Dave
[Thanks, Dave. Doyle is in robust but fragile health and in living in his large motorhome near Redlands, California. He sold his home in Fawnskin a year or two ago as the trips up the mountain (7,000 ft) were getting difficult for him physically. He recently drove up to Oregon and visited his ole buddy Warren Liberty while he was up there for repairs to his motor home.]

EMAIL from Stephen:
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your website and thank you for presenting it. I have
recently been using the Steiner Study Guide, and I appreciate the listing of the Arenson 50.
I don't know about the Anastasia Books, I have not heard about them before — did you apply a
dose of skepticism to them before you you decided they were for real, the stuff I am reading on
the Net, albeit briefly is pretty fantastic and sound somewhat Castanadean in nature. I may get the
first book and try to keep an open mind.
Best regards
Stephen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bobby's Reply to Stephen about Anastasia:
Apparently the web is overdosing on skepticism and does not need my help! Velikovsky had his best-selling books pulled away from MacMillan by Harlow Shapely who admitted that he only read what the skeptics had to say. Of course when 26 of 26 of Velikovsky's predictions in that book proved correct, the skeptics were silent. Never apologized to this day, so far as I know. The skeptics in her own field ridiculed Barbara McClintock's work on transposable genes. They laughed at her right up to the day she received her Nobel Prize for her pioneering work. Skeptics do not build the highway to the future, instead they lay down in front of bulldozers, among other obstructionist things. The pyramids of Egypt were not built by skeptics, someone once said, but I doubt that's the whole story!

EMAIL from Howard in New South Wales, Australia:
Dear Bobby,
Bless You — your response brought tears to my eyes. You care. I reached out and you answered.

Thank you for your inspiration and support. Yes, I will let you know how I go.
with gratitude
Howard

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